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On 9/9/18 1:39 PM, Ralph Johansen via Marxism wrote:
That's quite plainly not the case with Trump.
Yup. Trump has very little in common with fascism economically. Despite
all the nationalist rhetoric, he is just the latest in a string of
politicians going back to Reagan and Thatcher whose goal it is to reduce
government spending to just about zero except for the military and the
cops. The tax cuts should have made that clear.
I wrote about this in CounterPunch in October, 2017:
For all of the millions of words written about the fascist danger posed
by Donald Trump, there are very few devoted to an actual analysis of
fascist economics both as ideology and state policy. Instead there is a
fixation on marchers in Charlottesville chanting “blood and soil” or
other Nazi era memes. Before considering whether people like Donald
Trump or Steve Mnuchin seek to impose a fascist dictatorship on the USA,
it might be useful to take a look at some of the demands found in the
Manifesto of the Fascist party founded by Benito Mussolini in 1919 that
was co-written by labor syndicalist Alceste De Ambris and Filippo
Tommaso Marinetti, the author of the 1909 Futurist Manifesto that had a
powerful impact on Russian art in the 1920s.
+ A strong progressive tax on capital (envisaging a “partial
expropriation” of concentrated wealth)
+ The quick enactment of a law of the state that sanctions an eight-hour
workday for all workers
+ A minimum wage
+ The participation of workers’ representatives in the functions of
industry commissions
+ To show the same confidence in the labor unions (that prove to be
technically and morally worthy) as is given to industry executives or
public servants
+ The seizure of all the possessions of the religious congregations and
the abolition of all the bishoprics, which constitute an enormous
liability on the Nation and on the privileges of the poor
full:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/27/the-political-economy-of-fascism/
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